Is and Was.

Be verbs in Marathi

Be verbs show “action” or “state of a being”.

” I am a doctor.My job is to look for tumors in my patients’ stomachs’. My patients are all very nice. They are very supporting. They allow me to write this website while doing surgeries. Once, I was performing a surgery to save my patient’s life. He told me to go out and bring his family members inside. I brought them . They all were very angry when they saw I was not doing any surgery. Because I was writing this text.I showed them that all red words in this text are “Be” Verbs.”

Be verbs are very boring and English language is full of them. Is, are, am, was, were, aren’t, ain’t, wasn’t, weren’t …………

In present tense we use : am/is/are

and in past tense we use : was/were

Marathi equivalent of am/is/are is “आहे” . It looks very similar to ” है” in Hindi.

and

The Marathi equivalent of was -were is होता / होती.

होता is used when you are describing a Masculine object and “होती” while describing a feminine object. This has 1:1 correspondence with था / थी of Hindi.

Now please read the following examples.

Tense

Marathi

Transliteration

English

Present

आज सोमवार आहे.

aaj somvaar ahe.

Today is Monday.

Past

काल सोमवार होता.

kaal somvaar hota.

Yesterday was Monday.

Present

आज सुट्टी आहे.

aaj sutti aahe

Today is a holiday.

Past

काल सुट्टी होती.

kaal sutti hoti

Yesterday was a holiday.

Present

हा माझा पेन आहे.

ha maazaa pen aahe.

This is my pen.

Past

हा माझा पेन होता.

haa maaza pen hotaa.

This was my pen.

Present

ही लालूची पत्नी आहे.

hee lalooche patnee ahe.

This is Lalu’s wife.

Past

ही लालूची पत्नी होती.

hee laluchi patnee hoti.

This was Lalu’s wife.

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Question 1

मी डॉक्टर _______ . (I am a doctor)

A

है

B

आही

C

होतो

D

आहे

Question 2

मी डॉक्टर ______ . (I was a doctor)

A

आहे.

B

होतो/होती

C

था

D

होतात /होतीत

Question 3

माझे नाव बराक ________ . ( My name is Barack)

A

होते

B

होतो

C

आहेत

D

आहे

Question 4

त्याची गाडी मारुती ______ . (His vehicle was Maruti )

A

होते

B

होतो

C

आहे

D

होती

Question 5

आमचा देश भारत _______ . (Our country is India)

A

आहेत

B

होता

C

आहे

D

नाही आहे

Question 6

सचिन ची गाडी फेरारी ________. ( Sachin's car was ferari)

A

होते

B

होती

C

आहे

D

होतो

Question 7

आज शनिवार _________. ( Today is Saturday)

A

है

B

आहेत

C

नही आहे

D

आहे

Question 8

माझा भाऊ इंजिनिअर _______ . (My brother is an Engineer)

A

आहे

B

है

C

होता

D

होती

Question 9

काल रविवार ______. (Yesterday was Sunday)

A

आहे

B

होती

C

होते

D

होता

Question 10

त्यांचा देश अमेरिका ________. (their country was America)

A

आहे

B

होती

C

होता

D

होते

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Both the sentences are correct.
Use of hee/tee depends on the distance between you and the person you are referring.
hee laloochi patni aahe = this is lalo’wife
tee laloochi patni aahe=that is lalo’s wife.
though both sentences mean she is lalo’s wife.